Day Time EDT Panel

Presenter

Title

Friday, July 7 7 - 9 am Log in, please contact help@bighistory.org with any questions.
Friday, July 7 79 am Round table. Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others.

Friday, July 7

9 – 10:15 am

Opening

Keynote

Daniel Barreiros

Fred Spier

Welcome!

How did humanity get itself into its current ecological predicament?

Friday, July 7 10:15 10:30 Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others.

Friday, July 7

10:30 – 12:15

Complexity in Big History

David LePoire

Complexity Workshop

     

Lowell Gustafson

Emergent Complexity: A Rationale for the University

     

Andrey Korotayev

Patterns of complexity growth in the Big History. A preliminary quantitative analysis

Friday, July 7 12:15 12:30 Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others.
         
Friday, July 7 12:30 – 1:15 pm Concepts and Applications Introduced by Lowell Gustafson
      Gustavo Lau Some Applications of a Big History Concept
         
Friday, July 7 1:15 – 2:45 pm Complexity Concepts, Education & Applications Panel Chair: Andrey Korotayev

 

 

 

Ken Baskin

The Practical Application of Complexity Science to Enhance Big History

     

Mark Ciotola

Resource-Based Predecessor and Parallel Schools of Thought to Big History

     

Paul Narguizian

Big History: Integrating Complexity in Biology Education

         

Friday, July 7

2:45 – 4:15

Complexity and Civilization

Panel Chair: Lowell Gustafson

 

     

Tony Harper

The Interaction Between Complexity And Entropy Over Human History As Exemplified By Changes In Urbanization

     

Stephen Satkiewicz

Social Complexity and War from a Big History Perspective

         
Friday, July 7 4:30 – 5:30 pm Gravitational Waves Introduced by Lowell Gustafson
      Amber Stuver Probing to the Depths of the Universe with Gravitational Waves
         
Friday, July 7 5:30 7:00 SETI and Big History Panel Chair: David LePoire  
      Claudio Maccone Big History Mathematical Formulae: b-lognormals, logpars and logells, with examples.
      Nicolò Antonietti Habitable Galactic Islands in the Milky Way.
         
Friday, July 7 7 – 9 pm Big Socioeconomic History Panel Chair: Daniel Barreiros

 

 

 

Daniel Vainfas

Class, Commerce and Climate: an investigation on a set of circumstances for the rise of capitalism in 15th century England

     

Felipe Blois

Civilization and Technology: antientropic concepts, tools and consequences

     

Bernardo Nery

The question of property and trade: cognition, behavior and human evolution

         
Friday July 7 9 - 9:15 pm Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by Daniel Barreiros.
         

Friday, July 7

9:15 pm Little and Local Big History Nobuo Tsujimura
Kenji Ichikawa

Introduction
Layered Structure of Little Big History ― Case Study of Enoshima, Japan
         
Friday, July 7 Following Kenjo Ichikawa's presentation and discussion, please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by Nobuo Tsujimura.
         
Saturday July 8
Saturday July 8 2:00 am (EDT) Finite Resources, Infinite Greed: Deconstructing the Infrastructural Progress in the Philippines
Panel Chair: Ma. Rubeth R. Hipolito
    Lady Mary Felizziety J. Daguay Godwin C. Pring Juan Gabriel C. Simbulan  
         
Saturday, July 8 6 am Civic Engagement Lowell Gustafson
Adalberto Codetta
Introduction
'Big History' and 'Global Civics': the impact of the Big History vision on the concept of Global Civics
      Hirofumi Katayama Accelerationism versus Deep Time: Chronopolitics in the Anthropocene
         

Saturday, July 8

7 - 9 am -

Science, Environment and Society – STEAM Education and Big
History in Hong Kong

Aidan Wong

 
     

Alexis Lau

 
     

Rachel Oser

 
         
Saturday, July 8 9 – 10:30 am Mega & Microbial Evolution Panel Chair: Andrey Korotayv

 

 

 

Leonid Grinin

Megaevolution: Its Main and Transitional Phases

     

Anton Grinin

Viruses and Evolution

     

Leonid Grinin

Chemical Evolution in Big History

         
Saturday, July 8 10:30 10:45 am Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by Andrey Korotayev
         
Saturday, July 8 10:45 am – 12:15 pm Where are we going? Panel Chair: Ken Solis

 

 

 

Nick Nielsen

Big History for ETI: Recognizing Parochial and Non-Parochial Forms of Complexity

     

Alexander Panov

Big History in the Galaxy: risks of contacts with alien civilizations

     

Marc
Widdowson

The last stop on the cosmic journey: an estimated time of arrival

         
Saturday, July 8 12:15 12:30 Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by Ken Solis

Saturday, July 8

12:30 - 1:30 pm

Introduced by David LePoire
    Peter Turchin Keynote Speaker Cliodynamics: History as Science
         
Saturday, July 8 1:30 1:45 Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by David LePoire
         
Saturday, July 8 1:45 – 3:15 pm Complexity of
Complexity
Periodization
Panel Chair: Paul Narguizian

 

 

 

Max Barnett

6 Steps to the Anthropocene: Mapping Complexity from Foragers to the Anthropocene

     

Nick Hoggard

Complexity in the Thirteen Threshold Theory of Evolution

     

David LePoire

Energy Flow & Complexity in Cosmic Phase

         
Sat, July 8

3:30 – 5:00 pm

The Biohistory of Feminism

Panel Chair: Lowell Gustafson

     

Abel A. Alves

 
      Carol Blakney  
         
Sat, July 8 5:15 om Big History in Primary Education Marilyn Ahearn  
         
Saturday, July 8 7 – 9 pm War, Politics, and Big History: between
structure and contingency
Panel Chair: Daniel Barreiros

 

 

 

Beatriz Pimentel,
Daniel Vainfas
Chimpanzee behaviour and Clausewitzian war: differences and similarities in the realms of politics and conflict
     

Walter Silva

The Evolutionary Roots of Warfare and Its Ecological Conditions

     

Daniel Barreiros

Social Classes and Social Cognition in Capitalism: The Enmeshment of Social Institutions and Human Ethology

         
Saturday, July 8 9 pm - 11 pm New Visions Panel Chair: Nobuo Tsujimura
      Nobuo Tsujimura The “Big Twist”: For making big history multicultural and multinatural
      S Darshan The Awakening of Common Consciousness: AGI and the Transition to a Resource-Based Economy
      Spencer Striker Empires & Interconnections for iPad | Challenging Students with Wicked Problems in History
         
Saturday, July 8 11 pm Reflections on Colonization and Globalization as Neutralizing Factors of Filipino Culture
Panel Chair: Ma. Rubeth R. Hipolito
    Lorenzo Miguel N. Guarin John Matthew C. Sausora  
         
Sunday, July 9
Sunday, July 9 7:15 – 8:45 am The Manifestation of Greed in Consumer Electronics: A Filipino Big Historian's Analysis of Resource Scarcity
Panel Chair: Ma. Rubeth R. Hipolito
    Rhod Railey T. De Vera Kirsten Dwayne A. Dizon Fritzgerald Gonzales
         
Sunday July 9 9 – 10:30 am Digital and AI
Perspectives
Panel Chair: Andrey Korotayev

 

 

 

Sergy
Grinchenko

Big History in the Digital Perspective

     

Ekaterina Sashienko

Evolutionary prospects for the development of AI

     

Andrey M.
Burovsky

The most general patterns of Big History

         
Sunday July 9 10:30 - 10:45 Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by Andrey Korotayev
         

Sunday July 9

10:45 am – 12:45 pm

Stories,  Language, and Ultimate Reality

Panel Chair: David LePoire
      Jenna Thompson Enlarging Our Map of Reality: Exploring the Threshold Between Thoughts and Words
     

John Hasse

The Nexus of Storytelling and Collective Learning: A symbiotic spark for human emergence

     

Todd Duncan

Fundamental Physics and Big History: Exploring Perspectives on Ultimate Reality

         
Sunday, July 9 12:45 1:00 Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by David LePoire

Sunday July 9

1:00  - 1:30 pm

Human Rights

Daniel Barreiros
Rob Grace

Introduction
Human Rights: A Big History Perspective

         
Sunday July 9 1:30 - 3:00 pm Cosmic Reconsiderations Panel Chair: Paul Narguizian
 

 

 

Barry Borgerson

Conquering Automatic Human Activities to Construct Threshold 9

      Tyler Volk
and Gregg Henriques
A framework toward a Big History 2.0
      Ken Solis Cosmic Evolution – A Critical Appraisal of Energy Rate Density
     

 

 

 

3:00 - 4:00

Members’ Meeting

IBHA Members

 
         

Sunday July 9

4:00 – 5:30 pm

Emerging Big History

Panel Chair: Lowell Gustafson
      Gustavo Lau An Abstract Data Type inspired by Big History
      David LePoire What can AI do for Big History?
      Anonymous Contributions of AI to Big History
         
 

5:30 - 7 pm

Conclusion

Andrey Korotayev, David LePoire, Daniel Barreiros

       
Sunday, July 9

7:00 - 9:00 pm

Big History Authors' Roundtable

David Christian, Ursula Goodenough, David LePoire, Lowell Gustafson

Sunday, July 9 Following the authors' rountable, please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by Daniel Barreiros